Boa, hopefully someday we can do a quick shot together, maybe a number of them. That would be a multi shot.
Sadly, however, we're on the opposite side of the planet and in different hemispheres. For us to
actually be together and do a quick shot, now that would be a long shot.
But as far as the quick-draw, for those unfamiliar with that, it is simply two caribiners attached with a short length of sewn web. Rock guys use these on lead climbs on bolted routes. The quick-draw is clipped into the anchor with the top biner and the climber's rope into the one just below. In tree climbing we call this a redirect and our 'quickdraw' is generally a sling with a biner at one end. We choker the limb and then slap our rope into the biner. Used mostly when you've climbed above your tie-in point to create a new, temporary tie-in point, or when you're way out, horizontal and some distance from where your rope is set. Set a redirect so if there was some mishap, you wouldn't do a monster pendulum back down and splat on the trunk.
I realize I'm not telling anything new here.
I actually did buy a quickdraw a few months ago at a sport shop. I just needed a Petzl bent gate non-locker. They didn't have any, except for the ones in the quickdraws, which included a non-locker straight gate. I bought it, figuring I'd just remove the biners, but I never did. I just hung it and I have grown somewhat attached to it. On yesterday's crane removal when the ball and cable would appear, I would slap the quickdraw on the cable to keep it right there while I got myself positioned and set the rig. I found a sweet spot on the saddle where it can sit, available, without getting in the way of anything else.
Hey Ekka, can we test a video?
I managed to get yesterdays tree job on time-lapse. The batteries lasted the entire job and no one parked in front of the camera. I futzed with it a bit last night and got the frame rate slowed down a bit, then posted it to a server. It's about 5 meg in Quicktime format. Click
right here and if you see the big 'Q' just give it a few moments. Dial-up guys, go make a sandwich. I'm sensitive to how long it can take, even though the video streams.
I climbed SRT this whole job with the rope anchored up at the top of the tree, rather than at the base, like it is traditionally done. I used spikes.
The footage is not intended to impress you big dogs, but there's something uniquely cool about time-lapse.